Nigel Mansell's 1993 IndyCar Championship Nigel Mansell's 1993 IndyCar Championship Go to permalink No one has ever achieved the feat of being Formula One World Champion AND IndyCar Champion at the same time, except one man - Nigel Mansell. And here’s how he did it. Only three other drivers managed to reign both series and all of them come close to being or just simply are stuff of legend - Mario Andretti, Emerson Fittipaldi and Jacques Villeneuve, but Mansell was the only one winning the two championships back to back, resulting in being champion at both at once with the 1993 F1 World Championship not being decided yet by the time he already won the IndyCar title the same year. Frank Williams is not an easy man to deal with, nor Nigel Mansell. Together they were like mixing two different, highly explosive material. Still, both are quite magnificent in their own way, which ultimately lead to Mansell winning the 1992 Formula One World Championship with the team (helped by the super-gizmo active suspension system ) after having spent 12 years in the series.

But push comes to shove, the two people eventually fell out and Mansell left Williams’ team as the latter wished to sign Alain Prost as his team mate. These two have already been together at Ferrari in 1990 and having had a quite strained relationship back then, Mansell decided to bow out. [Note: Ironically, after Prost joined Williams and won the championship in 1993, he, too, left Williams for the same reason as Senna was signed for 1994. Their earlier, stressful relationship at McLaren is widely documented and is one of the most cited periods of all F1's history.] Formula One's Next Frontier: Active Suspension and Aerodynamics? Formula One's Next Frontier: Active Suspension and Aerodynamics? Formula One's Next Frontier: Active Suspension… It has been a five-year journey since F1 started its energy efficiency campaign with the… Read more Read more Soon after, Mansell was already testing with the Newman/Haas IndyCar team at the Firebird International Raceway outside Phoenix, Arizona, the same place Ayrton Senna had his own private test with Penske, literally a few weeks before. ...or indeed he was just bluffing?

Read more Read more While Senna was driving the 1992 Penske Chevy just for kicks against Emerson Fittipaldi’s car for the 1993 season, Mansell was testing the 1993 Lola Ford hard for the upcoming season. A season that included drivers like Mario Andretti, A.J. Foyt, Eddie Cheever, Emerson Fittipaldi, Paul Tracy, Al Unser, Jr., Bobby Rahal, Jimmy Vasser, etc. No change is simple enough, and although F1 and Indy cars might look quite similar, it is still a challenge to adapt from one to another, mastering them as he now should explain the differences : Cue Laguna Seca Read more Read more The first race of the season at Surfers’ Paradise started strong with a pole position,continued with a fastest lap during race and finished the weekend off with a race win: His first oval race at Phoenix right after that, however, did not go so well.

Crashed into the wall, suffering a back injury: This did not encourage him though, he was quick to return to pole position at Long Beach, which he tackled before during his Formula One years: Morning Showroom: The 1982 Formula One Grand Prix of Long Beach Morning Showroom: The 1982 Formula One Grand Prix of Long Beach Morning Showroom: The 1982 Formula One Grand Prix… Before IndyCar launches its cars down in So-Cal, let's have an extended look - i.e. a full… Read more Read more Rest assured, he was quick enough on road/street courses due to his F1 expertise (as he scored three other pole positions at such tracks during the season), but how can he possibly be good at American racing’s birthplace: at ovals - asked his critics, pointing at his Phoenix accident with the 77th Indy 500 coming up. For once and for all, he shut all- nay-sayers up by coming in at third place at the legendary race. not being quick enough at the restart.

Moreover he got so used to ovals that he spent the rest of the season winning all four of them, starting two from pole position and ran two fastest laps - no further road/street course win - including being victorious at one of the fastest of them all, the Marlboro 500 at Michigan Speedway, while battling with dizziness and sickness, also the New England at Loudon a week later - on his 40th birthday: Eventually, the championship came down to the penultimate race of the season, at Nazareth, Pennsylvania: Securing the 1993 title in IndyCar, he was now double champion, but unfortunately he was never able to repeat his success. Although he scored a few pole positions and fastest laps, he never won a race again. He returned to Formula One to help out Williams at the French Grand Prix following Senna’s death, just between the Oregon and Cleveland races, and once the Indy season was done, he bid farewell to the series and raced in the last three Formula One races, winning the Australian Grand Prix, his last ever victory.

He had a brief comeback in 1995 with McLaren, but the legend of the “Red 5" was already a thing of the past, yet an unrepeatable stuff of legend. What is your favourite Nigel Mansell moment? Nigel Mansell - 1992 Nigel Mansell Share No driver fought harder to get into Formula One racing and few fought harder when they got there. Hugely determined, immensely aggressive and spectacularly daring, he was one of the most exciting drivers ever. With his win or bust approach - 31 wins and 32 crashes - he became the most successful British driver and joined the ranks of the all-time greats in terms of fastest laps, wins and poles. With the Union Jack on his helmet and a chip on his shoulder, he was both quick and controversial. His awkward personality made him some enemies, his heroic performances made him millions of fans. Nigel Mansell was a driven man and it showed. Next Previous 1 / 5 Estoril, September 1986: Nigel Mansell and his most famous rivals at the Portuguese Grand Prix.

From left to right: Ayrton Senna (Lotus), Alain Prost (McLaren), Mansell and Williams team mate Nelson Piquet. He would beat them all in the race. © Sutton Images Monza, September 1986: The 1986 season, his second with Williams, was Nigel Mansell’s most successful to date, with five race victories. Here at the Italian Grand Prix he finished second. © Sutton Images Adelaide, October 1986: Nigel Mansell’s championship hopes ended with a spectacular tyre failure on the main straight at the season-ending Australian Grand Prix. © Sutton Images Imola, May 1987: Nigel Mansell won six races in 1987 – more than any other driver – including the San Marino Grand Prix. However, an injury in practice in Japan ended his title hopes. © Sutton Images Hungaroring, August 1989: Nigel Mansell took three victories from his two seasons with Ferrari, including his very first race with the team, and here at the Hungarian Grand Prix.

© Sutton Images Born on 8 August, 1953, near Birmingham, Nigel Ernest Mansell first drove a car in a nearby field at the age of seven. That same year he watched Jim Clark in a Lotus win the 1962 British Grand Prix at Aintree and decided then and there to emulate the great Scot, an ambition no doubt entertained by countless other small boys. Few of them would have persevered through Mansell's many misfortunes. After considerable success in kart racing, he become the 1977 British Formula Ford champion, despite suffering a broken neck in a testing accident. Doctors told him he had come perilously close to quadriplegia, that he would be confined for six months and would never drive again. Mansell sneaked out of hospital (telling the nurses he was going to the toilet) and raced on. Three weeks before the accident he had resigned his job as an aerospace engineer, having previously sold most of his personal belongings to finance his foray into Formula Ford. Next, Mansell and his loyal wife Rosanne sold their house to finance a move into Formula Three.

In 1979 a collision with another car resulted in a huge cartwheeling crash he was lucky to survive. Again he was hospitalised, this time with broken vertebrae in his back. Shortly after this, stuffed with painkillers and hiding the extent of his injury, Mansell performed well enough in a tryout with Lotus to become a test driver for the Formula One team. In his Formula One debut, at the 1980 Austrian Grand Prix, a fuel leak in the cockpit left him with painful first and second degree burns on his buttocks. Mansell became very close to Lotus boss Colin Chapman and was devastated by his sudden death in 1982. He stayed with the team for two more years, then moved to Williams in 1985. Near the end of that season, having no victories to show for 71 Grand Prix starts, Mansell suddenly blossomed into a prolific winner, starting with the 1985 European Grand Prix at Brands Hatch, where he wept on the podium. In a span of 18 months he won 11 races, yet lost out on two World Championships he was poised to win.

In 1986 a burst tyre in Adelaide destroyed his season at the last possible moment. In 1987 it was a serious qualifying accident at Suzuka that injured his back again (a spinal concussion) and handed the title to his hated Williams-Honda team mate Nelson Piquet (who called Mansell "an uneducated blockhead" and took verbal shots at Rosanne). For Mansell (who never physically attacked Piquet as he had Ayrton Senna after they collided at Spa), the highlight of 1987 was his scintillating late race charge to beat his least favourite Brazilian at Silverstone. Mansell was simply unstoppable, setting lap records 11 times in the final moments as he reeled in the other Williams. On his victory lap, as thousands of patriotic fans in the feverish grip of 'Mansellmania' flooded onto the track, their hero stopped to kiss the tarmac at the spot where he'd overtaken Piquet at 180mph. Mansell thrived on adversarial situations, using them to fuel his motivational fires, and if they didn't exist he seemed to go out of his way to create them.

His 'me against the world' mentality caused conflict. At Williams, Patrick Head said "he thinks everybody is trying to shaft him at all times" and Frank Williams called him "a pain in the arse". The media also tired of Mansell's chronic complaining. But the fans loved him for the pure, palpable aggression with which he raced. Even that wasn't enough to overcome the deficiencies of the Judd-engined Williams cars in 1988 and when an opportunity arose at Ferrari Mansell seized it with both fists. Next Previous 1 / 2 Race Winner Nigel Mansell (GBR) Williams Renault FW14 British Grand Prix, Silverstone, England, 14 July 1991. © Sutton Motorsport Images Ayrton Senna (BRA) McLaren MP4/7A manages to stay ahead of Nigel Mansell (GBR) Williams FW14B in a fierce battle at the end of the race.

Monaco Grand Prix, Monte-Carlo, 31 May 1992 © Sutton Motorsport Images His 1989 debut with Ferrari began with a win in Rio and throughout the season he flogged his Ferrari for all it was worth, endearing himself to the fanatical Italian tifosi who called their moustachioed British hero 'Il Leone' (The Lion). At the Hungaroring, where overtaking is supposed to be impossible and where he had qualified a seemingly hopeless 12th, Mansell stormed through the field, scraped past Senna's McLaren in a breathtaking manoeuvre and won the race. In 1990 the wheels came off Mansell's Ferrari bandwagon when Prost became his team mate and out-manoeuvred him politically. At Silverstone the 'British Bulldog' theatrically threw his gloves into the adoring crowd and announced he was retiring at the end of the season. A couple of months later he made a U-turn and announced he was returning to Williams. In 1991 he won five times in the Williams-Renault but lost out on reliability to McLaren's Senna, who took the title.

The next year Mansell dominated, winning nine of the 16 races in his Williams-Renault FW14B, but shortly after he was declared the 1992 World Champion he again announced his retirement. His grievances with Williams included a dispute over money and anger that the despised Prost might be his 1993 team mate. Williams offered a last-minute incentive of whatever conditions he wanted but Mansell stalked off to IndyCar racing in America, where he immediately dominated, even on the unfamiliar high speed ovals, and became the 1993 IndyCar champion. In 1994 Williams persuaded him to return for the final four races, the last of which, in Australia, he won in stunning fashion from pole position. The next year he raced twice for McLaren but decided the car wasn't up to his speed. And so, after 187 hard races in 15 tumultuous seasons, 41-year-old Nigel Mansell left Formula One racing for good. He retired a rich man, operating several business enterprises, including a Ferrari dealership and a golf and country club (he played golf to a professional standard) and lived the good life with his wife Rosanne and their three children.

"I had my fair share of heartaches and disappointments," he said of his career, "but I also got a lot of satisfaction. I only ever drove as hard as I knew how." Text - Gerald Donaldson SPORTS PEOPLE - AUTO RACING - Mansell Is Switching To Indy Cars Next Year - NYTimes.com SPORTS PEOPLE: AUTO RACING; Mansell Is Switching To Indy Cars Next Year Published: September 19, 1992 NIGEL MANSELL, the Formula One champion, will drive for Newman-Haas Racing in the Indy-car series next year, the team announced yesterday. The Briton takes the spot vacated by MICHAEL ANDRETTI, who announced last week that he was switching from Indy cars to Formula One and will drive for Team McLaren. The 39-year-old Mansell, who won the Formula One title this season by taking 8 of the first 11 races, will team with MARIO ANDRETTI, Michael's father, who was his Formula One teammate at Lotus in 1980. "His presence will give Indy-car racing a whole new following in Europe," CARL HAAS, the team's co-owner, said of his newest driver.

Mansell has driven with the Williams-Renault team the last two seasons, but did not reach an agreement with the owner, FRANK WILLIAMS, on a new contract for 1993. (AP) Nigel Mansell profile on SnapLap Gallery Nigel Mansell is the 1992 Formula One world champion. He is one of the ten British Formula One champions but the only one who was at the same time Formula One and Indy champion. A year after winning the Formula One title, he debuted in the CART Indy Car World Series and took another big title, becoming the first debutant Indy champion and the only driver who simultaneously held both titles. There is one more interesting fact which makes Mansell special among the living F1 legends. In 2015, the Mexican Grand Prix returned to Formula One after 23 years. Back in 1992, Mansell was the winner of the last Mexican Grand Prix race, so in 2015, he was presented as a special guest on the new track, where even one corner was named after him, which is an honor rarely seen among the living drivers.

Nigel Mansell at the 2015 Mexican Grand Prix Complete F1 results: 31 wins in 187 Grand Prix races Mansell's F1 career spanned over 15 seasons; he registered 187 Grand Prix races and scored 31 wins and 59 podiums. He was seventh overall in the Formula One race winners list. He drove for four big F1 teams – Lotus, Williams, Ferrari and McLaren. Before the 1992 title, he was second placed three times (1986, 1987 and 1991). Racing career started in 1976 Nigel Ernest James Mansell was born on 8 August 1953 in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire. After a considerable success in kart racing, he moved on to single-seaters in 1976. He drove various machines but was most successful in the Formula Ford, in which he won the 1977 British championship. The next step was Formula 3.

Although he started the 1978 season with a pole position and 2nd place finish, he was not competitive for most of the season, because his Unipart team used Triumph engines, which were inferior to Toyota engines of other teams. In 1979, he scored one victory at Silverstone and finished 8th in the championship. Nigel Mansell in Unipart’s Formula 3 car Formula One championship debut with Colin Chapman Mansell's driving caught the eye of Colin Chapman , the owner of Lotus, who invited him to test the Formula One car. That year, Lotus was searching for a second driver alongside Mario Andretti . Elio de Angelis got the seat in 1980, while Mansell was selected to become a test driver. He spent a year driving Formula 3 and Formula Two races. In 1980, Mansell debuted with Chapman's team at the F1 Austrian Grand Prix. He recorded one more start at the Dutch Grand Prix and the qualifying failure at Monza. First full F1 season for Mansell in 1981 His first full season followed in 1981, as a second driver alongside Elio de Angelis.

Mansell scored 3rd place at the Belgian Grand Prix and finished 14th in the championship. In four years as a full-time Lotus driver, Mansell struggled and his best finish was third place, which he achieved five times during the four years. In the championship classification, his best result was 10th place in 1984. Mansell’s first full season in Formula One was in 1981 with Lotus He was paid not to race at Le Mans During the 1982 season, Mansell planned to race in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in order to earn extra money. He was paid £50,000 a year by Lotus and was offered £10,000 to take part in Le Mans. His boss Chapman believed that by entering the Le Mans race, Mansell would be exposing himself to unnecessary risk and paid him £10,000 not to take part in the race. Chapman also extended Mansell's contract to the end of the 1984 season and made him an equal member in the team with De Angelis. This resulted in Chapman and Mansell becoming more than just a boss and a driver.

Unfortunately, their friendship was interrupted by Chapman's sudden death in December 1982. Nigel Mansell and Colin Chapman were close friends After Chapman's death, Mansell moved to Williams Following Chapman's death, relationships at Lotus became strained, as the interim team principal Peter Warr didn't really sympathize with Mansell. He promoted De Angelis back as the number 1 driver for 1983. In 1984, Mansell finished the championship in the Top 10 for the first time, but far behind De Angelis, who finished 3rd. Later in the season, Lotus announced the recruitment of Ayrton Senna for the following year, so Mansell made an agreement with Frank Williams . 1985 - high speed crash and maiden F1 win Mansell's team-mate in Canon Williams Honda team was Keke Rosberg , for whom Mansell later said that 'he was probably one of the best team-mates in his career'.

The season of 1985 was marked by Mansell's record high-speed (over 200 mph) accident at Circuit Paul Ricard during the practice run for the French Grand Prix and his first F1 victory at European Grand Prix at Brands Hatch. With one more victory at the South African Grand Prix he finished 6th in the championship. In 1985, Mansell got the red colored number 5 In 1985, the Red Five legend was born 1985 was the year when the story about the 'Red 5' began. It was the number which has been associated with Mansell for many years in his F1 career. He got the car number 5 when he joined Williams; to make it more distinctive from car number 6, it was decided that Mansell would be given a red number. BBC F1 commentator Murray Walker was the first who described Mansell's car as the "Red Five", and the legend was born. Upon his return to the team in 1991, Williams had retained the number 5 car, allowing Mansell to race as the "Red Five" once again.

After his departure to Indy Car Racing in 1993 to drive for Newman/Haas, he still retained the signature red number 5. Nelson Piquet as a new teammate in 1986 In 1986, Williams had the car capable of winning regularly, and Mansell had established himself as a potential World Championship contender. He also had a new team-mate; the double World Champion Nelson Piquet . Mansell scored five wins and came to the last race (Australian GP) as the championship leader, ahead of Alain Prost and Nelson Piquet. Mansell was third in the race with 19 laps to go, which was a good enough result for the title, but then the left-rear tyre of his car exploded. Eventually, Prost won the race and the championship. F1 drivers Senna, Prost, Mansell and Piquet at the 1986 Portuguese GP Suzuka accident get him out of the title fight This event was followed by six more wins in 1987, and Mansell was once again one of the main championship contenders.

Unfortunately, a heavy accident at Suzuka qualifying caused severe injuries for Mansell, and he missed the last two races of the championship, allowing his team-mate Nelson Piquet to become the champion for a third time. In 1988, McLaren switched from Honda's V6 turbo engine to Judd's V8 naturally aspirated engine. The results were catastrophic; Mansell finished only two of fourteen races, both with 2nd places. During the season, Mansell announced that he would be leaving Williams to join the Scuderia Ferrari. The last Ferrari driver selected by Enzo Mansell was the last Ferrari driver to be personally selected by Enzo Ferrari before his death in August 1988, an honor Mansell described as "one of the greatest in my entire career". The 1989 season was marked by FIA banning of the turbo engines and the introduction of the electronically controlled semi-automatic transmission by Ferrari. Mansell believed that it would be a development year because of the unreliable new transmission, but surprisingly, he won in his debut with Ferrari in the first race of the season (Brazilian Grand Prix).

In 1990 Mansell and Prost were team-mates in Scuderia Ferrari Mansell wanted to retire in 1990 The rest of the year was characterized by gearbox and various other problems, including a disqualification at the Canadian GP and a black-flagged incident at the Portuguese GP for reversing in the pit-lane, which resulted in a ban for the following race in Spain. However, Mansell finished fourth in the championship with the help of a memorable second win for Ferrari at the tight and twisty Hungaroring. A tough 1990 season took place with Ferrari, in which his car suffered more reliability problems, forcing him to retire from seven races. He was paired up with Alain Prost . They had an unequal status and Mansell even announced that he would retire from racing at the end of the season. With only one victory (Portuguese GP) he finished 5th in the championship. Mansell lifted Senna at Silverstone in 1991 In a dominant way Mansell took the F1 title Mansell's retirement plans were halted when Frank Williams again stepped in and they signed a multi-million dollar contract, which made Mansell the highest paid British sportsman at the time.

Williams agreed to Mansell's list of demands, but Mansell paid back all the money he got with good results and wins. In 1991, Mansell won five races but the drivers' and manufacturers' titles went to Ayrton Senna and McLaren-Honda. The following year, the Renault-powered Williams FW14B was the dominant car and Mansell scored nine victories and three 2nd places. He won the championship with an enormous gap ahead of team-mate Riccardo Patrese (108-56) and Williams also took the manufacturer's title. Mansell set the record for the highest number of wins in one season, which was broken in 2002 by Michael Schumacher . He also managed to get 14 pole positions that year, a record only broken by Sebastian Vettel in 2011. 1992 British GP podium: Patrese, Mansell and Brundle Fantastic rookie season in the CART Indy Car World Series Despite being the world champion, Mansell left the championship because of a disagreement with Williams. The main reason was the fact that Williams signed Alain Prost for the 1993 season.

Mansell still had a bitter taste in his mouth from their bad days in Ferrari and didn't want to drive with Prost as the team-mate. Mansell then signed with Newman/Haas Racing to pair up with Mario Andretti in the CART Indy Car World series. His debut was fantastic; at the season opener at Surfers Paradise, Australia, he became the first "rookie" to take pole position and win his first race. He scored five wins in the 1993 CART season and clinched the title, ahead of Emerson Fittipaldi . Poor second season alongside Mario Andretti In the following season, he stayed with Newman/Haas, but the result was very different from that of the previous years. He collected only three podiums and finished 8th in the championship. He also ruined his relationship with the team-mate Mario Andretti, who described Mansell as the 'worst team-mate he ever had'. Mansell was simultaneously F1 and IndyCar champion Final Formula One years with Williams and McLaren In 1994, after the CART season ended, Mansell returned to Williams one more time.

In the meantime, Alain prost won the 1993 drivers' championship and then retired after the season. Mansell took over Ayrton Senna's car, who was, unfortunately, killed earlier in the season. Mansell's team-mate was Damon Hill . Mansell's return was aided by Bernie Ecclestone, who wanted the world champion in the series to increase worldwide TV viewing. Mansell was a superstar and he was paid like a superstar, approximately £900,000 per race, compared to his teammate Hill, who was being paid £300,000 for the entire season. 40-year-old Mansell participated in four races and scored his last F1 victory, at Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide. Mansell couldn't fit in the narrow F1 car In 1995, Williams replaced Mansell with David Coulthard , so Mansell signed to drive for McLaren in 1995. That deal didn't last for long. Mansell missed the first two races of the season because his body couldn't fit in the narrow car and Mark Blundell replaced him.

He participated in San Marino GP at Imola and finished 10th. Shortly after, he retired from the Spanish GP, but also retired from his F1 racing career. Mansell’s BTCC crash at Donington Park Mansell and his sons together at Le Mans Three years later, Mansell competed in the 1998 British Touring Championship, driving the Ford Mondeo Ghia at six races. At his first event at Donington Park, he retired three laps into the sprint race, which meant he would start the feature race in the 19th position on the grid. As the conditions changed and the track got wetter, Mansell found himself leading the race for several laps and he finished in 5th position. He failed to finish the race at the next round at Brands Hatch, and at his final race at Silverstone he finished in 14th and 11th place. In the last ten years, Mansell took part in many occasional races and racing events, for example; DTM Race of Legends, FIA GT Championship and the Le Mans Series.

He was the founder of Grand Prix Masters series in 2005, and in 2010 he finally fulfilled his dream of racing at 24 Hours of Le Mans. Together with his sons Leo and Gerg, he drove the Ginetta-Zytek LMP1 prototype. They qualified as 18th overall but in the race they retired after just four laps. In 2010 Nigel Mansell finally competed at 24 Hours of Le Mans Long list of awards Mansell was inducted to the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2005. He was awarded the title of BBC Sports Personality of the Year in both 1986 and 1992. Only two other people have won the award twice, one of whom being fellow racing driver and former F1 World Champion Damon Hill. Mansell won the Hawthorn Memorial Trophy, an award for the leading British or Commonwealth driver in F1 each year, a record seven times in his career (1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991 and 1992).

Already Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), Mansell was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to children and young people. The reason is because in 1999 Mansell became the President of one of the UK's largest Youth Work Charities, UK Youth, and worked tirelessly to promote the charity. Video: Documentary about Nigel Mansell (part 1) 1993 PPG Indy Car World Series 1993 PPG Indy Car World Series Nigel Mansell - Champion ^Race sanctioned by USAC but counted in CART points standings Standing The Mansell Collection - Nigel Mansell CBE The Mansell Collection Contact Nigel Mansell – Formula 1 World Champion and CART Indy Car World Series winner. Most race fans know that I was F1 world champion in 1992 and IndyCar champion in 1993, but there’s so much more to tell you about my career. This is why we started The Mansell Collection on the Island of Jersey. Upstairs from our showroom, we tell the story of my battle to become a top racing driver.

Told via detailed interviews with myself over the years, some magnificent pictures and exciting video footage, the actual trophies and racing cars are on display too. And if you’re lucky, I might be close by and pop in to give you a few stories myself. This floor is available to hire for functions. We’ll also have a rather special boardroom on this level which you can take on for your corporate event. Imagine mingling with your guests while standing right next to the actual F1 cars I drove throughout his career. Nigel Mansell – Formula 1 World Champion and CART Indy Car World Series winner. Most race fans know that I was F1 world champion in 1992 and IndyCar champion in 1993, but there’s so much more to tell you about my career. This is why we started The Mansell Collection on the Island of Jersey. Upstairs from our showroom, we tell the story of my battle to become a top racing driver. Told via detailed interviews with myself over the years, some magnificent pictures and exciting video footage, the actual trophies and racing cars are on display too. And if you’re lucky, I might be close by and pop in to give you a few stories myself.

This floor is available to hire for functions. We’ll also have a rather special boardroom on this level which you can take on for your corporate event. Imagine mingling with your guests while standing right next to the actual F1 cars I drove throughout his career. Talking of the building, what a building it is! An art deco structure which we’ve restored to it’s original former glory. The place itself has so much history and has to be one of the most original venues anywhere in which to buy your next car. Opening hours and entrance fees: Monday to Saturday: 9am – 6pm Sunday: CLOSED Bank Holidays: CLOSED Adults(17+): £10 • OAPs: £7.50 • Children 0-10 Free 11-16 £5.00 Please note that all children must be accompanied by an adult. No more than 3 children per adult admission. Please note: Private group bookings are available after hours and on Sundays. For further information please email sales@themansellcollection.co.uk Please Note: There is no onsite parking for Museum Visitors Talking of the building, what a building it is! An art deco structure which we’ve restored to it’s original former glory.

The place itself has so much history and has to be one of the most original venues anywhere in which to buy your next car. Opening hours and entrance fees: Monday to Saturday: 9am – 6pm Sunday: CLOSED Bank Holidays: CLOSED Adults(17+): £10 • OAPs: £7.50 • Children 0-10 Free 11-16 £5.00 Please note that all children must be accompanied by an adult. No more than 3 children per adult admission. Please note: Private group bookings are available after hours and on Sundays. For further information please email sales@themansellcollection.co.uk Please Note: There is no onsite parking for Museum Visitors Nigel Mansell | Autopedia | Fandom powered by Wikia Template:Infobox racing driver Nigel Ernest James Mansell, CBE (born 8 August 1953 in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, England) is a British racing driver who won both the Formula One World Championship ( 1992 ) and the CART Indy Car World Series ( 1993 ).

Mansell was the reigning F1 champion when he moved over to CART, being the first person to win the CART title in his debut season, making him the only person to hold both titles simultaneously. His career in Formula One spanned 15 seasons, with his final two full seasons of top-level racing being spent in the CART series. Mansell remains the most successful British Formula One driver of all time in terms of race wins with 31 victories, and is fourth overall on the Formula One race winners list behind Michael Schumacher , Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna . He held the record for the most number of poles set in a single season, which was broken in 2011 by Sebastian Vettel . He was rated in the top 10 Formula One drivers of all time by longtime Formula One commentator Murray Walker . [1] In 2008, American sports television network ESPN ranked him 24th on their top drivers of all-time. [2] He was also ranked No.

9 of the 50 greatest F1 drivers of all time by the Times Online on a list that also included such drivers as Alain Prost , Ayrton Senna , Jackie Stewart and Jim Clark . [3] Mansell raced in the GP Masters series and signed a one-off race deal for the Scuderia Ecosse GT race team to drive their number 63 Ferrari F430 GT2 car at Silverstone on 6 May 2007. He has since competed in additional sports car races with his sons, Leo and Greg , including the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans . To date, he is the most recent inductee to the International Motorsports Hall of Fame from a country other than the US, having been inducted in 2005. He is the current President of one of the UK's largest Youth Work Charities, UK Youth. [4] . He is also President of the IAM (Institute of Advanced Motorists). He lives in Saint Brélade, on the island of Jersey.

[5] Contents Edit Born in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, Mansell spent 11 years of his early life as a Special Constable for the Isle of Man and latterly for Devon and Cornwall Constabulary. [6] He had a fairly slow start to his racing career, using his own money to help work his way up the ranks. After considerable success in kart racing, he moved to the Formula Ford series to the disapproval of his father. In 1976, Mansell won 6 of the 9 races he took part in, including his debut event at Mallory Park . He entered 42 races the following year and won 33 to become the 1977 British Formula Ford champion, despite suffering a broken neck in a qualifying session at Brands Hatch . Doctors told him he had been perilously close to quadriplegia, that he would be confined for six months and would never drive again. Mansell discharged himself from the hospital and returned to racing. Three weeks before the accident he had resigned his job as an aerospace engineer, having previously sold most of his personal belongings to finance his foray into Formula Ford.

[7] Later that year he was given the chance to race a Lola T570 Formula 3 car at Silverstone . He finished fourth and decided that he was ready to move into the higher formula. [8] Mansell raced in Formula Three in 1978–1980. Mansell's first season in Formula Three started with a pole position and a 2nd place finish. However, the car was not competitive, as a commercial deal with Unipart required his team to use Triumph Dolomite engines that were vastly inferior to the Toyota engines used by the leading teams. After three 7th place finishes and a fourth in his last race, he parted from the team. The next season saw him take a paid drive with Dave Price Racing. Following a first win in the series at Silverstone in March, he went on to finish 8th in the championship. [8] His racing was consistent, but a collision with Andrea de Cesaris resulted in a huge cartwheeling crash which he was lucky to survive. Again he was hospitalised, this time with broken vertebrae.

His driving was noticed by Colin Chapman , owner of Lotus , and shortly after his accident, hiding the extent of his injury with painkillers, Mansell performed well enough during a tryout at the Paul Ricard circuit with Lotus, where he was pitted against a number of other drivers to determine who was going to take the second seat for the 1980 season alongside Mario Andretti , as Argentinean Carlos Reutemann was leaving to go to Williams. Driving a 79 , the seat eventually went to Italian driver Elio de Angelis , but Mansell was selected to become a test driver for the great Norfolk-based Formula One team. Formula One Edit Mansell's skill as a test driver , including setting the fastest lap around Silverstone in a Lotus car at the time, impressed Chapman enough to give him a trio of starts in F1 in 1980 , driving a development version of the Lotus 81 used by the team, the Lotus 81B. In his Formula One debut at the 1980 Austrian Grand Prix , a fuel leak in the cockpit that developed shortly before the start of the race left him with painful first and second degree burns on his buttocks.

An engine failure forced him to retire from that race and his second, however an accident at his third event at Imola meant he failed to qualify. Team leader Mario Andretti wrote his car off before the final race of the season and Mansell had to give up his car for Andretti to compete in. Andretti announced he was leaving to move to Alfa Romeo at the end of the season leaving Lotus with a vacant race seat. Despite Mansell being unpopular with sponsor David Thieme of Essex Petroleum, and much speculation in the press that Jean-Pierre Jarier would fill the vacancy, Chapman announced at the start of the season the seat would be filled by Mansell. Mansell's four years as a full-time Lotus driver were a struggle, as the cars were unreliable. Out of 59 race starts with the team, he finished just 24 of them. He managed a best finish of third place, which he achieved five times during the four years, including Lotus's fifth race of the 1981 season, and only the seventh of Mansell's Formula One career.

Team mate Elio de Angelis took a surprise win at the 1982 Austrian Grand Prix , and was frequently faster than his less experienced colleague Mansell. File:Lotus 91 cropped.jpg During the 1982 season, Mansell planned to race in the 24 Hours of Le Mans sportscar event in order to earn extra money. At the time Mansell was paid £50,000 a year and was offered £10,000 to take part in Le Mans. Chapman believed that by entering the Le Mans race, Mansell was exposing himself to unnecessary risk and paid him £10,000 to not take part in the race. Chapman extended Mansell's contract to the end of the 1984 season in a deal that made him a millionaire. [9] As a result of the gestures such as the above, Mansell became very close to Chapman and was devastated by his sudden death in 1982. In his autobiography Mansell stated that when Chapman died, "the bottom dropped out of my world. Part of me died with him. I had lost a member of my family".

Following Chapman's death relationships at Lotus became strained, as replacement team principal Peter Warr did not have a high regard for him as a driver. This was demonstrated by the fact that Mansell's teammate Elio de Angelis had exclusive use of a Renault turbo-charged 93T for the whole season, and Mansell did not get to drive a turbocharged car until the 9th round, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone , a race where he climbed from 16th to 2nd and eventually finished 4th in a brand-new, hastily designed 94T . Warr was not keen on honouring the last year of the contract that Mansell had signed with Chapman. However, with encouragement from Lotus's sponsors, John Player Special (who allegedly preferred a British driver), it was announced Mansell would be staying with the team. Mansell set his first pole position in a Lotus 95T at the 1984 Dallas Grand Prix . In 1984, Mansell finished in the championship top 10 for the first time, and took his first career pole position.

At the 1984 Monaco Grand Prix Mansell surprised many by overtaking Alain Prost in a wet race for the lead, but soon after retired from the race after losing control on the slippery painted lines on the road surface on the run up the hill on lap 15. Late in the season, Lotus announced the recruitment of Ayrton Senna for the following year , leaving Mansell with no race seat at Lotus. After receiving offers from Arrows and Williams, and firstly turning down Williams 's offer, it was announced before the Dutch Grand Prix that he would indeed be joining Williams. Mansell was remembered by many that year when he collapsed while pushing his car to the finish line after the transmission failed on the last lap of the 1984 Dallas Grand Prix . The race was one of the hottest on record, and after 2 hours of driving in 104 °F (about 40 °C) conditions Mansell fainted while pushing his car over the line to salvage a sixth place finish (and thus 1 championship point) in a race of which he had led half, having started from pole.

[10] In his autobiography, Mansell claimed that his final race with the Lotus team—the 1984 Portuguese Grand Prix —was heavily compromised by Warr's unwillingness to give Mansell the brake pads he desired for the race. With 18 laps of the race remaining, and with Mansell in second position, the brakes on his car failed. On Mansell's departure, Warr was quoted "He'll never win a Grand Prix as long as I have a hole in my arse". [11] 1985–1988: Williams Mansell at the 1985 German Grand Prix . In 1985 Frank Williams hired Mansell to drive alongside Keke Rosberg as part of the Williams team, Mansell later saying "Keke was probably one of the best team-mates I've had in my career". Mansell was given the now famous "Red 5" number on his car, which he carried on subsequent Williams and Newman/Haas cars and which was brought to the public's attention mainly through commentator Murray Walker and his enthusiastic commentary for the BBC.

Rosberg, the 1982 World Champion who was heading into his fourth season with the team, was initially against Williams signing Mansell based on the clash the pair had at Dallas the previous year (Rosberg won that race and publicly berated Mansell's blocking tactics while leading early in the race in an interview while on the rostrum), and what Rosberg later said in a 1986 interview was second hand information about Mansell which ultimately proved to be false. The drivers found they got along well and from early in the pre-season formed a good working and personal relationship. 1985 initially appeared to provide more of the same for Mansell, although he was closer to the pace than before, especially as the Honda engines became more competitive by mid-season. Mansell achieved second place at the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps , and followed this with his first victory in 72 starts at the European Grand Prix at Brands Hatch in England. He achieved a second straight victory at the South African Grand Prix in Kyalami . These triumphs helped turn Mansell into a Formula One star.

Going into 1986 , the Williams-Honda team had a car capable of winning regularly, and Mansell had established himself as a potential World Championship contender. He also had a new team-mate in twice World Champion Nelson Piquet . The Brazilian publicly described Mansell as "an uneducated blockhead" and had also criticised his wife, Roseanne. [12] Unperturbed by Piquet's mind games, Mansell went on to record five Grand Prix wins in 1986 and also played part in one of the closest finishes in Formula One history, finishing second to Ayrton Senna in the Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez by a mere 0.014 seconds. The 1986 season went right down-to-the-wire in Adelaide , Australia for the Australian Grand Prix with Prost, Piquet and Mansell all still in contention for the title. After aiming for a third place finish which would guarantee him the title, Mansell would narrowly miss out on winning it after his left-rear tyre exploded in spectacular fashion on the main straight with only 19 laps of the race to go [13] .

In a 2012 interview for Sky Sports Legends of F1 [14] Mansell revealed that, had he hit the wall rather than bringing the car safely to a halt, the stewards would have red flagged the race. As the race was over two thirds distance, he would have kept his position and won his first F1 world title. Instead Mansell ended the season as runner-up to Alain Prost. His efforts in 1986 led to his being voted the BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Six more wins followed in 1987 , including an emotional and hugely popular victory at Silverstone in which he came back from 28 seconds behind in 30 laps to beat team-mate Piquet, with his car running out of fuel on the slowing down lap. [15] However, at the Italian Grand Prix he missed a gear and let Piquet, who was using an active suspension car, through to win.

A heavy qualifying accident at Suzuka in Japan for the penultimate race of the season severely injured Mansell's back (a spinal concussion), and as a result of Mansell absent from the remaining two races, Piquet became champion for the third time even though he failed to score any points in these two remaining races. Piquet called his win over Mansell as “a win of luck over stupidity”. [16] File:Nigel Mansell 1988 Canada 2.jpg In 1988 , Williams lost the turbo power of Honda to McLaren , and had to settle with a naturally aspirated Judd engine. A dismal season followed, which saw Mansell's Williams team experiment with a terribly unreliable (but extremely innovative) active suspension system. Mansell would complete only two of the fourteen races in which he appeared in 1988, both being podium finishes. Ironically, one of these was a second place at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone where the team had reverted to a passive suspension set-up.

Mansell developed chickenpox in the summer of 1988 and after a competitive (but ill-advised) drive in the very hot conditions of the 1988 Hungarian Grand Prix the illness became even worse, forcing him to miss the next two Grands Prix. 1989–1990: Ferrari Edit In preparation for the 1989 season, Mansell became the last Ferrari driver to be personally selected by Enzo Ferrari before his death in August 1988, an honour Mansell described as "one of the greatest in my entire career". Enzo Ferrari presented a 1989 Ferrari F40 as a gift to Mansell. [17] In Italy he became known as "il leone" ("the lion") by the tifosi (Ferrari fans) because of his fearless driving style. The season was one of change in the sport, with the banning of turbo engines by the FIA and the introduction of the electronic gearbox by Ferrari. Mansell believed that 1989 would be a development year and that he would be able to challenge for the championship the following season.

In his first appearance with the team he scored a very unlikely win in the Brazilian Grand Prix at Jacarepaguá , Rio de Janeiro; his least favourite track and the home race of his bitter rival Piquet. He later joked that he had booked an early flight home for halfway through the race as he predicted the car's new electronic gearbox would last only a few laps. Mansell became the first driver to win a race in a car with a semi-automatic gearbox. He also remained the last man to win on his Ferrari debut until Kimi Räikkönen in the 2007 Australian Grand Prix . File:Nigel Mansell 1990 USA.jpg The rest of 1989 was characterised by gearbox and various other problems, including a disqualification at the Canadian Grand Prix and a black-flagged incident at the Portuguese Grand Prix for reversing in the pit-lane, which resulted in a ban for the next race in Spain.

However, Mansell finished fourth in the Championship with the help of a memorable second win for Ferrari at the Hungarian Grand Prix , where, after concentrating on the race set-up of his car, he won after a fantastic late-race pass on Ayrton Senna having started 12th on the grid. A tough 1990 followed with Ferrari, in which his car suffered more reliability problems, forcing him to retire from seven races. He was paired with Alain Prost , the reigning World Champion, who took over as the team's lead driver. Mansell recalls one incident where at the 1990 British Grand Prix , the car he drove didn't handle the same as in the previous race where he had taken pole position. On confronting the mechanics, it transpired that Prost saw Mansell as having a superior car and as a result, they were swapped without telling Mansell. [18] After retiring from the race, he announced he was retiring from the sport altogether at the end of the season.

This, combined with the fact that Prost was not only a triple World Champion, but also spoke fluent Italian, whereas Mansell's Italian was only conversational at best, gave Prost greater klout in the Maranello team. Mansell scored only a single win, at the 1990 Portuguese Grand Prix , and finished a thrilling 2nd to Nelson Piquet in Australia , and finished 5th in the world championship. His retirement plans were halted when Frank Williams again stepped in. Williams signed Mansell on 1 October 1990 after Mansell was ensured the contract stated that he would be the focus of the team, having experienced being the 'Number Two' driver at Ferrari. Mansell would be paid £4.6 million a season, a deal which made him the highest paid British sportsman at the time. [19] 1991–1992: Return to Williams File:Mansell and Senna at Silverstone ultra cropped.jpg Mansell's return to Williams wasn't straightforward.

He would agree to return only if a list of demands were met, including undisputed number one status, guarantees of support in a wide variety of areas with each guarantee in writing, and assurances from suppliers such as Renault and Elf that they would do everything necessary to help him win. Frank Williams said the demands were 'impossible', Mansell concluded that if that were the case he would be happy to retire. Three weeks later the impossible had happened and Mansell was a Williams driver. His second stint with Williams was even better than the first. Back in the familiar 'Red 5', he won five races in 1991 , most memorably in the Spanish Grand Prix . In this race he went wheel to wheel with Ayrton Senna, with only centimetres to spare, at over 320 km/h (200 mph) on the main straight. Quite a different spectacle was offered following Mansell's victory in the British Grand Prix at Silverstone . Senna's car had stopped on the final lap, but, rather than leave his rival stranded out on the circuit, Mansell pulled over on his victory lap and allowed Senna to ride on the Williams sidepod back to the pits.

The Williams team's decision to develop their new semi-automatic gearbox by racing with it at the start of the season, was at the cost of points in the opening rounds of the championship. Senna was on 40 points by the time Mansell gained his first 6 in Monaco. Despite a good mid season, which included a hat-trick of victories, Senna's consistency (and Mansell's retirements at key races) meant that he finished second in the Championship once again, this time behind Senna. 1992 would be Mansell's finest season. He started the year with five straight victories (a record not equalled until Michael Schumacher in 2004 ). At the sixth round of the season in Monaco , he took pole and dominated much of the race. However, with seven laps remaining, Mansell suffered a loose wheel nut and was forced into the pits, emerging behind Ayrton Senna's McLaren -Honda. Mansell, on fresh tyres, set a lap record almost two seconds quicker than Senna's and closed from 5.2 to 1.9 seconds in only two laps.

The pair duelled around Monaco for the final four laps but Mansell could find no way past, finishing just 0.2 seconds behind the Brazilian. [20] [21] Mansell became the most successful British driver of all time when he won the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, as he surpassed Jackie Stewart 's record of 27 wins with his 28th. Mansell was crowned Formula One World Champion early in the season at the Hungarian Grand Prix , the eleventh round of that season, where his second place finish clinched the Drivers' Championship, securing the title in the least number of Grands Prix since the 16-race season format started. Mansell also set the then-record for the most number of wins in one season (9); both records stood until broken by Schumacher in 2002 . He managed 14 pole positions that year, a record only broken by Sebastian Vettel in 2011 in the Brazilian Grand Prix on 26 November.

Other Formula One records set in 1992 that he still holds are the highest percentage of pole positions in a season (88%), most wins from pole position in a season (9) most races before becoming World Champion (180 races) and most runner-up championship finishes before becoming World Champion (3). Mansell also holds the record for obtaining pole position and scoring fastest lap and subsequently retiring from the race ( 1987 German Grand Prix , 1990 British Grand Prix , 1992 Japanese Grand Prix , and 1992 Italian Grand Prix ). He won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award again in 1992, one of only three people to have won the award twice. CART IndyCar World Series Edit Nigel Mansell driving in the 1993 CART IndyCar World Series Despite being world champion, Mansell had a public disagreement with Williams. In his autobiography Mansell writes that this was because of a deal made at the previous Hungarian Grand Prix, which Williams reneged on, and the prospect of Frenchman Alain Prost joining the Renault -powered team.

Williams had neglected to tell Mansell that Prost had signed for 1993 at only the second race of the 1992 season in Mexico, a position that Mansell felt would be similar to their days together at Ferrari. To boot, Williams had Senna offering to drive the second car for free (although Senna found later he couldn't because of Prost's clause in his contract allowing him to veto the move) and decided that there was little sense in paying the high fees Mansell went on to demand. With the original offer revoked, Mansell with no teams near the competitiveness of Williams decided that enough was enough. An eleventh hour offer was handed to him during a televised press conference at the Italian Grand Prix, but by then the damage was done; Mansell ignored the document and announced that he had retired from F1. Mansell consequently left to join the Newman/Haas CART team in 1993. He took over the seat of Michael Andretti , who coincidentally had left CART to race in Formula One for McLaren . At the season opener at Surfers Paradise , Australia, he became the first "rookie" to take pole position and win his first race.

A few weeks later however, he suffered a substantial crash at the Phoenix International Raceway , severely injuring his back. At the 1993 Indianapolis 500 , Mansell would lead the race only to finish third after losing the lead to Emerson Fittipaldi and Arie Luyendyk after a poor restart. On his 40th birthday, however, Mansell would avenge his loss at Indianapolis to score a 500-mile race victory at Michigan, considered by many a tougher 500 mile race to win. He would go on to score five wins for the 1993 CART season, which, with more high-placed finishes, was good enough to earn him the championship. This enabled Mansell to become the only driver in history to hold both the Formula One and CART championships at the same time, because when he won the 1993 CART championship he was still the reigning F1 world champion, with the 1993 F1 championship not yet having been decided. Following this successful season in CART, Mansell received several awards, including a Gold Medal from the Royal Automobile Club and the 1993 ESPY Award for Best Driver.

His Newman/Haas car was much less reliable the following year, 1994, and results suffered. It was during this season that Mansell "wore out his welcome" in the United States with glimpses of rude behaviour, particularly after he was knocked out of the Indianapolis 500 . After the crash, he stormed out of the track hospital, and refused medical care. When Dr. Jerry Punch asked Mansell if he had spoken with Dennis Vitolo , the driver who had crashed into him, Mansell replied, "you speak to him." and shoved the camera away. Subsequently, Mansell was due to sign autographs at a K-mart (the primary sponsor of his car), but because of a lack of demand the event was cancelled. Mansell was also the catalyst for the breakdown in the relationship between himself and Mario Andretti . Mario has since remarked "I guess if Ronnie Peterson was the best team-mate I ever had, Nigel Mansell was the worst" and "I had a lot of respect for him as a driver, but not as a man". [22] Brief return to Formula One Edit In 1994 Mansell made a Formula One comeback.

After the untimely death of Ayrton Senna , he returned to Formula One with Williams, replacing young rookie David Coulthard for the French Grand Prix and the last three races of the season. Mansell was paid approximately £900,000 per race, compared to Williams's lead driver at the time, Damon Hill being paid £300,000 for the entire season. [23] Mansell's return was helped by Bernie Ecclestone helping unravel his contracts in the United States. It was important for F1 to have a world champion driving that season, and with worldwide TV viewing figures starting to decline, they needed Mansell. The 40-year-old wasn't as quick as Damon Hill in race trim but signs that his speeds were coming back were evident in Japan during a fantastic battle with the Ferrari of Jean Alesi . Mansell took his final Grand Prix victory in Adelaide , which was the final race of the season, having out-qualified the two title contenders at the time, Damon Hill and Michael Schumacher , in the process (helped out by the second qualifying session being held on a wet track, with the times from the 1st session making up the grid).

The plan initially was for Mansell to protect Hill from Schumacher, but both drivers passed him at the start and eventually collided (causing the retirement of both), handing Schumacher his 1st world title. Williams had an option on Mansell's services for 1995 which Mansell was convinced they would take. Williams however, opted for youth over experience and hired Coulthard. 1995: McLaren Edit Mansell was quick again and on the back of winning two titles, he was still hot property. After losing the Williams seat to David Coulthard, Mansell signed to drive for McLaren in 1995 . It was well documented that Mansell and Ron Dennis never saw eye to eye but with McLaren's sponsors wanting a world champion, Dennis had only two options: the second option, Schumacher, was already taken, which left Mansell. Media speculated from the start that they wouldn't last together because of their two contrasting personalities. The season started dismally; Mansell couldn't fit into the car and wasn't able to race until Imola , where he ran in the midfield, a good way off the pace of his team-mate Mika Häkkinen .

The Spanish Grand Prix saw a similar outcome but, outpaced and frustrated with his car's handling characteristics, he chose to retire after just two races with the team. Mansell cited the decision to retire as his not wanting to make up the numbers and with no hope of the MP4/10 being competitive. A few testing sessions with F1 teams including Jordan suggested another comeback could be on the cards, but it never happened. British Touring Car Championship File:Mansell BTCC1998.jpg Mansell took part in the 1993 TOCA Shootout, held at Donington Park. Mansell drove a Ford Mondeo with his usual red number 5. The race ended in disaster for Mansell; he was knocked unconscious following a crash with 6 laps remaining. [24] He lost control of his car through the exit of the Old Hairpin, over-corrected the slide and collided with Tiff Needell 's Nissan , resulting in a spin and a heavy impact with the tyre wall under the bridge. [25] Mansell made a return to racing in 1998 in the British Touring Car Championship , driving in a Ford Mondeo for three rounds.

With the number 5 already taken by James Thompson , Mansell raced with the red number 55. [26] [27] At his first event at Donington Park , he retired 3 laps into the sprint race, meaning he would start the feature race in 19th position on the grid. As the conditions changed and the track got wetter, Mansell found himself leading the race for several laps, and he finished in 5th position. [28] The race was regarded by many fans as one of the greatest in touring car history. [29] It was to be his best finish in the series, as he failed to finish either race at the next round he participated in at Brands Hatch , and at his final race at Silverstone he finished in 14th and 11th place. [30] [31] Having competed in 3 of the 13 rounds, he finished 18th out of 21 in the drivers' championship.

[32] Subsequent appearances File:Mansell jordan 2004.jpg On 16 July 2005, Mansell took part in a Race of Legends exhibition event at the Norisring round of the DTM . [33] He competed against Jody Scheckter , Alain Prost , Mick Doohan , Emerson Fittipaldi and Johnny Cecotto , each driver having an opportunity to drive Audi , Mercedes and Opel cars. Prost was announced as the winner by the DTM organisers. [34] Mansell became a financial stakeholder and a driver in the new Grand Prix Masters series. Following a period of testing and developing the car, Mansell made a successful race comeback by winning the inaugural race of the series in Kyalami in November 2005. [35] After the success of the race at Kyalami, four dates were scheduled for the GP Masters Series in 2006, including one at Silverstone. Mansell won the season opener at Qatar in April from pole position.

[36] The Monza round of the series was cancelled due to noise limitations at the venue, whilst technical issues quickly ruled him out of the Silverstone race. [37] Also in 2006 he appeared to Brands Hatch , scene of his first Grand Prix win, in May 2006, driving some demonstration laps in the BMW M3 GTR that Andy Priaulx drove to victory in the 2005 24 Hours Nürburgring , as part of the World Touring Car Championship event. File:Nigel Mansell 2007.jpg On the weekend of 6 May 2007 he made an appearance in the second round of the FIA GT Championship at Silverstone driving a Ferrari 430 GT2 for the Scuderia Ecosse team. [38] He was paired with Chris Niarchos, finishing 7th in class and 21st overall. [39] Mansell, with his son Leo , tested a Chamberlain-Synergy team Le Mans prototype Lola -AER B06/10 during the week commencing 14 July 2008, at the Estoril circuit .

The pair were said to be considering a drive in the American Le Mans series, possibly commencing as soon as October 2008 in the Petit Le Mans event, [40] [41] although neither driver was in the final field. On 3 July 2009, Mansell tested his other son Greg's World Series by Renault car at the Silverstone Circuit , setting a best time six seconds off the pace of the fastest driver in the session. [42] Mansell took part in the last round of the 2009 Le Mans Series, the 1000 km of Silverstone, driving Team LNT 's Ginetta-Zytek GZ09 alongside his son Greg and team boss Lawrence Tomlinson . [43] Mansell raced a Ginetta - Zytek Z09R in the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans , alongside his two sons. [44] According to the BBC, this was the first time a father has raced at Le Mans in the same car as his two sons. However, in the race he crashed out after only five laps, following a puncture.

[45] For the 2010 Formula One season, the Sporting Regulations were changed so that a former driver sits on the stewards' panel. Mansell took this role at the 2010, 2011 and 2012 British Grand Prix. Endorsements Edit On 1 October 2009 Nigel appeared as the 'Face of Euronics'. [46] In 2010, Nigel paired with Iranian-British comic Omid Djalili in an UK television advertising campaign for price comparison website Moneysupermarket.com and at the end of the first ad, Djalili put a fake moustache on Mansell's upper lip. Video games There were two video games endorsed by Mansell: Nigel Mansell's Grand Prix (1988, Martech) and Nigel Mansell's World Championship (1993, Gremlin Graphics). Personal life Mansell currently lives in Jersey, Channel Islands. Mansell lived in Port Erin on the Isle of Man during most of his F1 career until 1995.

[47] In 1986, Mansell revealed a desire to compete in the British Open Golf Championship. [48] Helmet Edit Mansell raced with a blue helmet with two red and white arrows on each side forming on the frontview a drawing resembling the Union Flag with the upper angles of the arrows united by a red and white 'U', with the white chin area, when he entered to Williams, it was added a blue ring on the white part of the helmet. His sons Leo and Greg inherited his helmet design, but Leo's helmet has the red chin area and the white part that envelopes the visor (not counting the top) is red with white outline, while Greg's helmet has the blue chin area and the white area that envelopes the visor is blue with white outline. Awards Edit Mansell was awarded the title of BBC Sports Personality of the Year in both 1986 and 1992. [49] [50] Only two other people have won the award twice, one of which being fellow racing driver and former F1 World Champion Damon Hill . Mansell was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2005.

[51] Already Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), Mansell was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to children and young people (as president of UK Youth). [52] [53] Racing career results 1993 Newman Haas Lola decals View Cart 1993 was a remarkable year for Newmann Haas Racing. With Michael Andretti leaving the team to drive in F1, Newman Haas brought in defending World Champion Nigel Mansell to fill the open seat... he did not disappoint, winning his first ever Indy Car race in the season opener at Surfers Paradise. A practice crash at Phoenix kept him from making his oval debut, but team mate Mario Andretti became the oldest person to ever win an Indy car race at age 53. At Indy Mario looked like he might get the pole position but was beat late in the day by Arie Luyendyk. Nevertheless, Mario dominated the race, leading a race high 72 laps, but it was Mansell who contended for the win, bringing the car home in third.

At Michigan the team mates were untouchable: After setting world closed course speed records, the team swept the race, with Mansell claiming victory in what he called his toughest win ever. Mansell went on to capture the championship before the 1993 F1 Championship was decided - as a result Mansell was concurently the F1 and Indy Car champion!

Question: In which year was Nigel Mansell Indy Car Champion?
Answer: 1993